RE: SNDDST Confirmation of Delivery - Internet (Outside World)

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sames issues with acknowledgments in the EDI world.  There is a document
called an FA (functional acknowledgement) that tells the sending party
that indeed an EDI translator saw the EDI document and that it conformed
to the proper syntax, but that is about all it tells.  It does not mean
that the document was routed to the proper application system, or that
the application system accepted the document or even that the terms and
conditions spelled out in the document (like a PO) were accepted.  In
the EDI world, if you need a positive confirmation of delivery of a PO,
you ask for a PO acknowledgement in return.  Usually the Po Ack is
generated by an application and is much more reliable than the FA.  The
FA is like the little paper that spits out of the fax machine, somebody
got it, but is it the right somebody?
cjg

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Peter,

This isn't an issue of how the AS/400 deals with email.  It is how the
world deals with email.

For example, I use Outlook.  In that, you can tell it to a)
Automatically send notices (Delivery, Read and Deleted), or b) Never
send them and c) Ask.

I use c.  So if you request a notification, I MIGHT let one be sent to
you!  It just depends on what I want to do at that particular moment.

If you need to know that your notices have been delivered, use Fax. But
even then you can not be 100% sure.  But you DO know that it got
delivered (or not) to the fax machine at the other end.  Of course, you
have no idea what happens to it after that.  But you do have a much
higher confidence that it got delivered than with email.

Regards,
Bob Crothers